Backwards Design

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The Big Picture of a Design Approach

©Understand by Desgin p.18
Key Design Question
 Design Considerations
 Filters
(Design
Criteria)
 What the Final Design Accomplishes
Stage 1. What is worth and requiring of understanding?
 National Standards
State Standards
Regional topic opportunities
Teacher expertise and interest.
 Enduring ideas.
Opportunities for authentic, discipline-based work.
Uncoverage.
Engaging
 Unit framed around enduring understandings and essential questions
Stage 2. What is evidence of understanding?
 Six facets of understanding. Continuum of assessment types.
 Valid.
Reliable.
Sufficient.
Authentic Work.
Feasible
Student Friendly
 Unit anchored in credible and educational vital evidence of desired understandings.
Stage 3. What learning experiences and teaching promote understanding, interest, and excellence
 Research-based repertoire of learning and teaching strategies.
Essential and enabling knowledge and skill.
 WHER
Where is it going?
Hook the Students.
Explore and equip.
Rethink and revise.
Exhibit and evaluate.
 Coherent learning experiences and teaching that will evoke and develop the desired understandings, promote interest, and make excellence performance more likely.
Helpful Link: "Backwards Design Overview" (Greece, NY School District)